Tom: Am
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GRAND DARK FEELING OF EMPTINESS - Bonnie Prince Billy
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Tabbed by: bengtaaron
Tuning: Standard
Am
Am C
Well I felt like I was born today
Am C
So I took it upon me to go away
Am C
To gather my thoughts and go away
Bb Am
To where I could be used by somebody
Am C
Over the hill like always you know
Am C
Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe
Am C
And they beat and broke me hard and slow
Bb Am
To prove I was nobody
Am G
And no one I was and so remained
Am G
Knocked out in a hut, no mother, no name
Am G
And filled up my heart with one and the same
Am G Am
That grand dark feeling of emptiness
Am C
And was it a friend that turned me loose?
Am C
Or was it a girl come to baste my goose?
Am C
Or was it my great God who laid on his finger
Bb Am
And started my clock anew?
Am G
Ah no, it was rain, ah no, it was gunning
Am G
It was point break and buckle and singing and cunning
Am G
That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running
Am G Am
And I never looked back from then on
Am
And now I'm learning bit by bit
G
'Bout the make and model shit
F
Muddy bowl, I live in it
Em Am
And all the mucks that tire us
Am
And I'm afeared if I don't have
G
A piglet, lamb, or little calf
F
I'll chop my humanness in half
Em Am
And be as worm or virus
Am
But kids I've had, and they are sung
G
Upon folks' ears my babes are hung
F
And rhythmically they live among
Em Am
And grow but don't get old
Am
Not in a box, not in a void
G
Not if their voice is never heard
F
Nor if no-one repeats a word
Em Am
But if their tune is told, then...
C G
We can age and fall away
C G
And meet again some golden day
Am F
And fill it in our happy way
Am G Am
In starlight and in gold
